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By all AIR F( )RCl-: ()\"t'rsc;/s Staff Correspondent
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She made her first appear~.mce in l t.rlv. She \\'as the first
plane in at Dole, at Sistcrou, at florence-and where
she w.i-u't the first she \\ent in right behind the
fighter-bombers who \\TIT ronte-bla,ting for the inf.mtrv.
Slics just a lumbering C--t7, but to the medicos and the
wounded \\'110 w.ut for her wherever there's act iou, she's the
most wunclcrfnl airt-r.rf t in the "odd. They call her the
'Blood Plane'. .
The Blood Plane carries whole blood, not plasma. Blood
consists of fluid and cellular clements. \\ 'hen a donor gil es
blood In t lic State,. cell, arc rcruovcd and rcm.uu nu; f1111d.
which is pLt,nla. i, fr()/en .md dried, ThIS dried pLt,nu keep'
indefinitely without refrigeration, c.m be c.uricd cvcrvwhcrc
and gill'n to a m.ui iumudi.rtclv after he is injured.
But when a man h~IS a severe wound, or a bad hemorrhage
or is h.ullv